kinematograph
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Next door to that there is a kinematograph wagon, with benches to seat about one hundred and fifty persons.
From The Crisis in Russia by Ransome, Arthur
The Eden Musée was the first place where this French kinematograph was installed.
From The Photoplay A Psychological Study by Münsterberg, Hugo
There is a special hole cut in the side of the wagon, and through this the kinematograph throws its picture on the great screen outside, so that several thousands can see it at once.
From The Crisis in Russia by Ransome, Arthur
An American kinematograph operator, Mr. Edwards, of Mr. Hearst's papers, was desirous of taking a film of these women navvies—heavy, sad creatures they are.
From The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War by Curtin, D. Thomas
It's a put-up thing: the taking of a kinematograph film—a living picture—for the Alhambra to-night!
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.
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